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Why would this necessarily be true? Several authors have written about algorithmically generated & operated companies or entities (Charlie Stross, the Ghost in
by knowtheory 12y ago
Why would this necessarily be true?
Several authors have written about algorithmically generated & operated companies or entities (Charlie Stross, the Ghost in the Shell) either as litigation shields or entities which outlived their owners but continued to operate.
The idea is certainly odd, to essentially create autonomous and roughly speaking self-sufficient/directed artificial creatures, but it's consistent at least.
The thought that makes me saddest i think is just that the core quality we'd imbue humanity's first autonomous creations with would be capitalist wage-slavery (a literal non-hyperbolic one in this case).
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- manicdee 12y agoSaddling people with debt, then paying them a minimum wage. Effectively they become slaves unable to leave their employer due to dependencies on things such as lunch programs, health insurance, leave benefits. This system of wage-slavery is enforced today through police, lawyers, bankers and politicians working in accidental concert to ensure that you must go into debt (by renting or buying a house), and that you must work for whatever wages you can attract (because no money means no place to live), or be thrown in gaol for the sin of being poor. There are towns in the USA re-introducing debtors prisons ("poor houses") where people who have defaulted on debt repayments can live in penury, having their wages garnished by the state before they get hold of the money themselves. You mig have other rationalisations for it.
- tempestn 12y agoIs that really sad given that these 'creations' would not be in any way self aware? The idea is far-fetched, but the programming required is possible today. This wouldn't be advanced AI.
- jobigoud 12y agoIt is basically what DAC and smart contracts are all about. Check out the Ethereum project.
- kwhitefoot 12y agoFor some entities it makes sense (the lobsters in Accelerando clearly benefit from it and their emancipation does not do any harm) but for society as a whole it is surely a dangerous idea.
- blueblank 12y ago>but for society as a whole it is surely a dangerous idea By what and who's metric? There is no stable, verifiable entity "society as a whole".